re: Married Men Outearn Single Men (and Women as a Whole)

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This is surprising since married women may be more likely to have children than single women,” he noted

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Not at all surprising to me from my own experience. Every company I’ve ever worked for (besides my current) dramatically overpaid their 45+ aged women.

Younger single people tend to settle for less/not know what they could potentially earn from their employers. Married people, especially people with families, often have a higher expectation of pay. Especially older folks who have been working for a long time and gradually moving up in pay.

There’s also a lot of value still placed on “years of experience”. As it should be, but man that can bite companies in the arse too. Time spent employed somewhere doesn’t equate being a great worker. I’ve worked with quite a few older women who spent 30 years in the industry yet constantly needed younger employees’ help to even halfway perform their jobs. At my last job, my coworker was making double my salary but did maybe 20% of the work I did and struggled sending an email. All the employer saw when they hired her was the years of prior employment.

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The reason for me is that they have more to lose, and are working for more than themselves.

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this is pretty accurate imo.

i’ve had to work ridiculous hitches (56 and 7) out of state. 12-14 hour days, 7 days a week, for nearly 2 months.

if i was single with no kids, i probably don’t make it past the first hitch before telling them to just shove it and find something else, even at a much lower income.

but i’m married and have 2 teenaged kids, so i did what i had to do.

and according to that chart, apparently i’m pretty average and have followed that curve pretty damn close.
i might be a hair above it right now, but not enough to reallly brag about it.

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Im not sure I understand why the single men, and married men have such a gap in the early 20s range. That would be interesting to know more about

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a lot of single men are in college and only working part time in early 20s.

guys who got married at 18-20 years old are working full time already.

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Before my wife and I got married:

Field Engineer
Mid-Six figures and per firm
6 weeks on 6 days off

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$500K as a field engineer

Married men might out earn single men but they have less money.

Not necessarily true.

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Married men get paid more because they're married

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To add to my earlier post regarding married applicants, the fact that they are married conveys a higher sense of stability as well. This becomes more important with family owned companies.

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Mid-Six figures and per firm

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You know this means 400k-600k, not 140-160k, right?

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